David Stearns to be hired as Mets president of baseball operations

\n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”Since the moment Cohen took over as the Mets’ owner in November 2020, he began searching for a long-term baseball operations leader. Since then, the Mets have leaned on four executives to lead the department, including Sandy Alderson, Jared Porter, Zack Scott and Billy Eppler. That whole time, the idea of hiring Stearns intrigued Cohen, but the young executive’s contract commitments with the Brewers made it impossible.\n\nWith those walls down, the Mets hope Stearns can now become a long-term answer, ushering in an era of stability and success in Queens.\n\nHis resume suggests he can. Upon graduating from Harvard, Stearns began his baseball career as an intern with the Omar Minaya-led Mets, who wanted to hire him full time but did not have an available position. Instead, Stearns moved on to Major League Baseball’s front office, to the Guardians and eventually to the Astros as an assistant general manager.\n\nHis next jump was to become GM of the Brewers, a small-market team he took to the postseason in four consecutive years from 2018-21. Along the way, Stearns earned a promotion to president of baseball ops in Milwaukee. Following the ’22 season, he stepped down from that post to take on an advisory role, in what many around the game saw as a prerequisite to his hiring in Flushing. The sides began negotiating recently, before coming to an agreement on Tuesday.\n\n“He’s solid — very solid,” said one Stearns confidant who wished to remain anonymous because the deal is not finalized. “He’s a good listener. He’s not this ‘analytics-crazy’ type of guy. Baseball-wise, he’s balanced. He’s well-rounded.”\n\nIn Milwaukee, Stearns took over a fourth-place team and reversed its fortunes through a slew of transactions — including a 2018 trade for Christian Yelich, who won the National League MVP Award in his first season with the Brewers. Stearns finished tied for second in MLB Executive of the Year voting that year, then made the playoffs again the following season. Under Stearns, the Brewers finished in first or second place in every full season from 2017 to the present.”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”OEmbed”,”html”:”

.@spillygoat19 and @CJNitkowski react to the news of David Stearns reportedly heading to New York. pic.twitter.com/r3vB0uQHZw

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\n\n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”“When you hear the name ‘David Stearns,’ you think of Harvard and just the intelligence in the sense of his approach,” said Mets reliever Phil Bickford, who played under…